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The Wild Honey Suckle 野冬忍花Freneau 黄杲炘译Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, 美好的花呀,你长得:这么秀丽Hid in this silent, dull retreat, 却藏身在这僻静沉闷的地方——Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow, 甜美的花儿开了却没人亲昵，Unseen thy little branches greet; 招展的小小枝梢也没人观赏；No roving foot shall crush thee here, 没游来荡去的脚来把你踩碎，No busy hand provoke a tar. 没东攀西摘的手来催你落泪。

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Nature's self in white arrayed, 大自然把你打扮得一身洁白，She bade thee shun the vulgar eye, 她叫你避开庸俗粗鄙的目光，And planted here the guardian shade, 她布置下树荫把你护卫起来，And sent soft waters murmuring by; 又让潺潺的柔波淌过你身旁； Thus quietly thy summer goes, 你的夏天就这样静静地消逝，Thus days declining to repose. 这时候你日见萎蔫终将安息。

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Smit with those charms, that must decay. 那些难免消逝的美使我销魂，I grieve to see your future doom; 想起你未来的结局我就心疼，They died---nor were those flowers more gay, 别的那些花儿也不比你幸运——The flowers that did in Eden bloom; 虽开放在伊甸园中也已凋零， Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power 无情的寒霜再加秋风的威力，Shall leave no vestige of this flower. 会叫这花朵消失得一无踪迹。

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From morning suns and evening dews 朝阳和晚露当初曾把你养育，At first thy little being came: 让你这小小的生命来到世上，If nothing once, you nothing lose, 原来若乌有，就没什么可失去，For when you die you are the same; 因为你的死让你同先前一样；The space between, is but one hour, 这来去之间不过是一个钟点——The frail duration of a flower. 这就是脆弱的花享有的天年。

野忍冬花弗瑞诺 (美国)美好的花呀，你长得：这么秀丽，却藏身在这僻静沉闷的地方——甜美的花儿开了却没人亲昵，招展的小小枝梢也没人观赏；没游来荡去的脚来把你踩碎，没东攀西摘的手来催你落泪。

大自然把你打扮得一身洁白，她叫你避开庸俗粗鄙的目光，她布置下树荫把你护卫起来，又让潺潺的柔波淌过你身旁；你的夏天就这样静静地消逝，这时候你日见萎蔫终将安息。

那些难免消逝的美使我销魂，想起你未来的结局我就心疼，别的那些花儿也不比你幸运——虽开放在伊甸园中也已凋零，①无情的寒霜再加秋风的威力，会叫这花朵消失得一无踪迹。

朝阳和晚露当初曾把你养育，让你这小小的生命来到世上，原来若乌有，就没什么可失去，因为你的死让你同先前一样；这来去之间不过是一个钟点——这就是脆弱的花享有的天年。

黄杲炘译①伊甸园为《圣经》中的地名，据说是人类始祖亚当和夏娃居住的乐园。

选自《美国抒情诗选》，上海译文出版社(1989)Here Freneau offers, along with other early writers like William ByrdII,Timothy Dwight, and Thomas Jefferson, a vision of an abundant, America with potential for providing a good life for all. The poem is also an indication of his dedication to American subject matter as he examined peculiarly American characteristics of the ountryside. Freneau was the most significant poet of 18th-century America. Some of his themes and images anticipated the works of such 19th-century American Romantic writers as Cooper, Emerson, Poe and Melville. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 英文总结（353字）========================================="The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. With Irving's companion piece "Rip VanWinkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction still read today.The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head". Ichabod mysteriously disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was "to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related".The dénouement of the fictional tale is set at the bridge over the Pocantico River in the area of the Old Dutch Church and Burying Ground in Sleepy Hollow. The characters of Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel may have been based on local residents known to the author. The character of Katrina is thought to have been based upon Eleanor Van Tassel Brush, in which case her name is derived from that of Eleanor's aunt Catriena Ecker Van Tessel.Although Irving knew an army colonel named Ichabod Crane from Staten Island, New York (who was also once the Commanding Officer of Lieutenant Stonewall Jackson), the character in "The Legend" may have been patterned after Jesse Merwin, who taught at the local schoolhouse in Kinderhook, further north along the Hudson River, where Irving spent several months in 1809.。